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		 <note><p>Description of how and why changes were made</p></note>
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<text><body><div><p><span>NOTES AND QUERIES.</span></p>
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<lb n="2"/><p><span>I. - I. umárd or iomárd: umard or iomard in</span>
<lb n="3"/><span>Beara.</span></p>
<lb n="4"/>
<lb n="5"/><p><span>4.  Pas: This is a corruption of bas, I think, and was,</span>
<lb n="6"/><span>no doubt, used this way: - bas leathan, bas árd, bas</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>gearr, agus c.  I have often seen people use the bas (or bos)</span>
<lb n="8"/><span>for measuring. Finally, when bos was corrupted to pas,</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>the meaning was lost, and so pas deirionnach, pas moch,</span>
<lb n="10"/><span>agus c., were said.</span></p>
<lb n="11"/>
<lb n="12"/><p><span>7.  Fochar aga: fotha raga in Béara.  fotha, cause,</span>
<lb n="13"/><span>rag, a wrinkle (O'R.'s Dict.)</span></p>
<lb n="14"/>
<lb n="15"/><p><span>9.  Ní'l sé fé an tighe, I heard … fé dhíon</span>
<lb n="16"/><span>tighe, a few times; this seems to point to the right word.</span></p>
<lb n="17"/>
<lb n="18"/><p><span>11.  ar dínn an lae: i dteinidh an lae in Béara.</span></p>
<lb n="19"/>
<lb n="20"/><p><span>14.  Bhí sé aer aige: This is nothing but the prop. pr.</span>
<lb n="21"/><span>air (on him), as bhí sé orm, ort, agus c., é dhéanamh (I,</span>
<lb n="22"/><span>your, and c., had to do it) clearly proves; besides, if it were</span>
<lb n="23"/><span>eire, a burden, the prop. do or d' would be prefixed to it,</span>
<lb n="24"/><span>as in d'uallach, do bhi sé d'uallach ort an méid sin do</span>
<lb n="25"/><span>dhéanamh.  In the following we have somewhat similar</span>
<lb n="26"/><span>prep. pr. coming together: Ní rabhas faoi dho, I wouldn't</span>
<lb n="27"/><span>tolerate from him; ó chuaidh se chuige aige, or ó chaudih se</span>
<lb n="28"/><span>chuige de, since he has carried matters so far, since he has</span>
<lb n="29"/><span>pushed it to such extremes, since it is come to it (that).</span>
<lb n="30"/><span> </span>
<lb n="31"/><span>16.  soiniughad: sár soingiughad in Beara.</span>
<lb n="32"/><span> </span>
<lb n="33"/><span>III. - 5. nár a dé do veis; Over and over again we</span>
<lb n="34"/><span>are told that dia do bheatha, or dia bheatha means welcome.</span>
<lb n="35"/><span>Dé do bheatha, or dé bheatha, is what I have always heard,</span>
<lb n="36"/><span>and I live in a locality where there is splendid Irish. </span></p>
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<pb n="173"/>
<div><lb n="37"/><p><span>spoken by those who are not ashamed to speak it.  I </span>
<lb n="38"/><span>believe the proper spelling to be déagh (good), and that</span>
<lb n="39"/><span>dia has nothing whatever to do with it.  The following</span>
<lb n="40"/><span>are heard in Béara, and all over Munster for that matter:</span>
<lb n="41"/><span>N'a rai' (= ná raibh) déagh do ghnó, Ill may be your </span>
<lb n="42"/><span>work!  That your work may be not good!  na rai' déagh</span>
<lb n="43"/><span>do shaoghal = Bad luck to you!  That your life may be not</span>
<lb n="44"/><span>good!  Ná rai' déagh do shláinte; ná rai[bh] déagh do</span>
<lb n="45"/><span>shaothar; A! ná rai(bh) déagh beatha na muintire do</span>
<lb n="46"/><span>mhairbh mo ghé!; ná rai' déagh do leigheas; ná rai' déagh</span>
<lb n="47"/><span>do bhís (bís, cutting teeth); na rai' déagh do mheíos</span>
<lb n="48"/><span>(mheios I take to be another form of bís,</span>
<lb n="49"/><span>and certainly the older, as deimhios, a shears = dí-mhios</span>
<lb n="50"/><span>shows), agus c., agus c.  I think these examples prove that déagh</span>
<lb n="51"/><span>and not dia is the proper spelling.  Suppose that it is not,</span>
<lb n="52"/><span>let anyone put dia instead of deagh in the above examples</span>
<lb n="53"/><span>and see what can he make of them - nonsense.  But,</span>
<lb n="54"/><span>perhaps, some may say that deagh is the proper form; yes.</span>
<lb n="55"/><span>certainly, but even in compounds it is deágh, as deágh-</span>
<lb n="56"/><span>oibreacha, and dy, as in deagh-fhear, as well as dea(gh), so</span>
<lb n="57"/><span>that it has assumed three froms, or, rather, it is pronounced</span>
<lb n="58"/><span>in three different ways.  Why not a fourth?</span></p>
<lb n="59"/>
<lb n="60"/><p><span>Lítis, I believe to be the vegetable Lettuce.</span></p>
<lb n="61"/>
<lb n="62"/><p><span>Padruig O'Laoghaire.</span>
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